When the Reckoning Comes: A Novel Nature_Gift_Guide **The Sunday Times Bestseller**

**The Sunday Times Bestseller**

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When the Reckoning Comes: A Novel Nature_Gift_Guide **The Sunday Times Bestseller**"LaTanya McQueen's When The Reckoning Comes is so deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further. This is a novel, like Octavia Butler's Kindred, that reminds its readers that as long as people don't acknowledge how much of the past still shapes the present, it will bring its whips, its hatchets, and fists to make us learn." Megan Giddings,